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| From | Dan Taylor <editor@hungovergourmet.com> |
| Subject | Re: Kiss Army on RockTownHall pages/Slade |
| Date | Thu, 15 Feb 2007 07:10:30 -0500 |
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Bob: Glad you've joined the Kiss fold. I've been telling people
they're just glam rock/pop in a different package for years. I was a
kid during the first wave of Kiss-mania back in the 70s but my
parents didn't like them and thought there was something vaguely evil
about them, which naturally made me want to listen to them even more.
My buddy had all their LPs and we would record them to cassette by
putting mics in front of the speakers because he didn't have a tape
deck on his stereo! Then I'd mis-label the tapes in case my mother
happened to be "cleaning" my room. LOL!
I'm a big fan of 'Dressed to Kill' and 'Rock and Roll Over' -- those
are the epitomes of the glam pop to me. There's also a couple great
catchy rock songs on Paul's makeup era solo LP, like "Wouldn't You
Like to Know Me" and "Tonight, You Belong to Me," though the song
that got me back into KISS when I was a college radio DJ was "Rip It
Out" from Ace's makeup solo album.
My wife got me the KISS-OLOGY Volume 1 DVD set for my birthday. Lots
of stuff I had on bootlegs through the years but it's nice to have
all that stuff on one handy collection.
On Feb 15, 2007, at 5:37 AM, bob_hutton@standardlife.com wrote:
> Ha! Funnily enough Jim, I was listening to some Kiss last night.
> I was
> never into them in the 70s - they meant nothing over here in the
> UK, I was
> too busy with Jam, buzzcocks, Ramones and Sex Pistols.
> However ..... many
> years later I read somewhere that they were much more "pop" than your
> average metal band. This piqued my interest and I bought the CD
> reissue
> of Double Platinum ... hey this is pretty good, I thought. And
> immediately that line from Come On And Love Me (quoted in the
> RockTownHall
> page too), leapt out at me ... "She's a dancer, a romancer, I'm a
> Capricorn and she's a Cancer". I hadn't heard lyrics quite that
> moronic
> since Rocket to Russia by my beloved Ramones. Kiss were like the
> proto-Ramones, in fact.
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